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Having explored the 'third rock from the sun,' John Lithgow is now heading for its moon. The award-winning actor is set to star in the new 11-episode podcast "BUZZ" about the life of one of the first humans to land on the moon.
It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when Ed Smylie realized they had to do something about the carbon dioxide. What happened next is now storied space history. Smylie died on April 21, 2025.
A crew of three Chinese taikonauts, Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie, have arrived aboard the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft at the Tiangong space station, beginning a six-month stay only six-and-a-half hours after they launched from northwest China.
A monument to space program workers now stands where an example of its honorees' towering contributions to NASA history was on display. The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama held a ribbon cutting for its new Space Exploration Wall of Honor.
NASA's oldest active astronaut has redefined traveling "home" for your birthday, landing from the International Space Station on the same day that he turned 70. Don Pettit touched down aboard Soyuz MS-26 with Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.
A new record has been set for the most paid at auction for an astronaut's timepiece. The 18-karat gold Omega Speedmaster that was presented to Neil Armstrong four months after he became the first person to walk on the moon sold for $2,187,500 with premium.
A flag that flew to the moon, a cookie from Cookie Monster and the set list for a music tour are now all space artifacts, having briefly left the planet with popstar Katy Perry, TV morning show host Gayle King and four more women.
James Neihouse had one more thing to share. From inside a tote bag, he pulled out a frame displaying 11 strips of tape, each of which had printed text and handwritten notes from astronauts who filmed the IMAX movie "The Dream is Alive" 40 years ago.
Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz have introduced the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act."
During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
Seattle's Museum of Flight has brought its collection of space artifacts up to the present day, thanks to a rocket engine that's been donated by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (1935-1967) was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut, but before soaring to these heights, he navigated the classrooms of Bradley University.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture sent its 10th crew on a quick suborbital ride to space today, extending its list of spacefliers to more than 50. And that list now includes the first Blue Origin spaceflier who preserved a bit of his privacy as he flew.
Houston's Robert Pearlman, who runs the website collectSPACE, talks about the world of collecting objects from the history of NASA and human space exploration.
